He was the top seed for the event, but that wasn’t why he was ready to go.

Actually, it was because his teammates all slashed their seed times.

“Everybody’s dropping so much time today,” Woomer said. “That’s great. It gets you fired up.”

And with that, he zipped through the Cumberland Valley High pool in 21.38 seconds to win the 50 free title Friday night at the District 3-AAA Championships.

Woomer and the Bulldogs 200 medley and 200 free relays all struck gold as the boys held a commanding lead in the team standings after the first day of competition. Wilson had 310 points, 132 points ahead of second-place Cumberland Valley.

The Wilson girls, thanks to some personal-best swims and a Berks-record performance by the 200 free relay, were also in first with 208 points, just ahead of Hershey (191).

By dropping those times, the Bulldogs are achieving two goals.

“That’s what it’s all about,” coach Roy Snyder said. “We’re trying to win a (district) team title and get as many swimmers to states as we can. We’re doing both.”

Still, it was hard to be businesslike with freshmen such as Nate Savoy, Tyler Toren and Zach Delillo all smashing their seed times.

Savoy took 3½ seconds off in the 200 individual medley; Toran dropped 2½ in the 200 free; Delillo took three off in the IM.

As for gathering points, the Bulldogs scored 53 just in the 100 butterfly even though the highest finisher was Jared Figueroa in third. Isaac Wenrich was fourth, Matt Savoy sixth and Michael Westley ninth.

“We’re all extremely excited,” Snyder said. “The kids are swimming great and the kids are doing their best times.”

Another good sign — the 200 free relay won without needing Woomer’s services. Jack Ruth, J.C. Hoffa, Dan Crigler and Steve Gallagher took first in 1:26.68.

“We’ve said that we have a deep team and that proves it,” Snyder said.

The medley relay of Woomer, Gallagher, Figueroa and Hoffa won in 1:36.52.

Meanwhile, the Wilson girls were putting up a spirited battle with favorite Hershey in the team standings. The Bulldogs finished second twice to the Trojans in both relays, and had runner-up finishes by Caitlyn Karr (200 free), Morgan Curran (IM) and Sami Wierzbicki (50 free) to take the slight lead.

The performance of the night was from the 200 free relay. It set a Berks record, despite getting a silver. The team of Wierzbicki, Taylor Straub, Paige Impink and Chelsea Beck had a time of 1:36.37 to break the previous mark of 1:37.40 set last year at districts by the Bulldogs.

The 1:37.40 set the district record last year, which Hershey broke Friday (1:35.82).